Artist Leoma Lovegrove signs downtown Fort Myers lease, selling Matlacha gallery

Author: David Dorsey, Gulfshore Business
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Leoma Lovegrove will be closing her Matlacha art gallery, but perhaps not forever. Then the renowned artist will spend the summer taking a break and getting ready for a new gallery to open in late summer or early fall in downtown Fort Myers.  

Lovegrove, who had been in an 800-square-foot wood-frame gallery off Pine Island Road in Matlacha since she and her husband bought that property in 1998, signed a five-year lease to relocate to 1415 Dean St., adjacent to Ford’s Garage restaurant on First Street in Fort Myers.  

After Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida on Sept. 28, Lovegrove put the Matlacha gallery property, which includes an art studio and a guest house with canal access, on the market for $2.5 million. But she recently reopened it for a few weeks. It’s been open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., despite still not having running water or power, and will close at the end of the day Monday, April 17.

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